International sports, particularly football, is facing an unprecedented wave of corruption and match-fixing. At the same time, we have witnessed FIFA executive after FIFA executive being tarnished with corruption. So what can you as an ordinary football fan do to save the sport?

Footballer, thinker, revolutionary. Comrade Josef Barton’s thoughts and philosophies have been the subject of much speculation and scrutiny. What follows are excerpts from his iconic ‘Newcastle Diaries’ written in the summer of 2011.

That Shostakovich adored football is well documented; it was he who coined the phrase, ‘the ballet of the masses’. He would often take in two matches on Sunday afternoons, in support of the Dynamo and Zenit Leningrad teams of his hometown. His letters to his friend Isaak Glikman, which have been translated into English, furnish us with touching and trivial insights into his quirkily obsessive relationship to the game